OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Letter to General Edward Hand from Jasper Yeates” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Letter to General Edward Hand from Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · November 5, 1782
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Letter to Colonel Edward Hand from Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · July 11, 1776
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577
Letter to Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · December 14, 1789
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
Letter to General Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · December 6, 1789
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Telegram to Praeger on September 6, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1918
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · October 21-23, 1837
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · August 29, 1839
The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · July 15-17, 1837
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · July 2, c. 1847
The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · October 18, 1837
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
Official Business cover
Artist not stated in the record · August 12, 1882
Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · March 29-30, 1835
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 73 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1230838 matched · 40 examined · 11 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 09:38 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.